IMF Research Bulletin
- Publisher:
- International Monetary Fund
- Publication date:
- 2008-07-07
- ISBN:
- 1020-8313
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- No. 22-1, June 2020
- No. 21-2, September 2019
- No. 20-1, March 2019
- No. 19-2, December 2018
- No. 19-1, June 2018
- No. 18-3, September 2017
- No. 18-2, June 2017
- No. 18-1, March 2017
- No. 17-4, December 2016
- No. 17-3, September 2016
- No. 17-2, June 2016
- No. 17-1, March 2016
- No. 16-4, December 2015
- No. 16-3, September 2015
- No. 16-2, June 2015
- No. 16-1, March 2015
- No. 15-4, December 2014
- No. 15-3, September 2014
- No. 15-2, June 2014
- No. 15-1, March 2014
Latest documents
- Inclusion in Economics: Interview with Sole Martinez Peria
- Good Jobs for Young People: A Policy Imperative to Reduce Inequality
- Can You Put a Price on That? The Cost of Female Guilt at Work
- She, Robot: Women's Employment in the Face of Automation
- The Snowball Effect: How the Rich Get Richer
- Inequality and the Conduct of Monetary Policy
- Falling off the Ladder: Why So Few Female Economics Professors?
- The Perspective from Home
- Tariffs in a Globalized World: A Gamble Where Everybody Loses
- Getting the Most out of Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Machine Learning and Threshold Models
Featured documents
- A Broken Social Contract, Not High Inequality, Led to the Arab Spring
During the 2000s, inequality in Arab countries was low or moderate and, in many cases, declining. Yet there were revolutions in four countries and protests in several others. This so-called inequality puzzle can be explained by noting first that, despite favorable inequality measures, subjective...
- Q&A: Seven Questions about the Relationship between Country Finance and Governance
Economists have studied the relationship between the quality of institutions and growth extensively (North 1990). In contrast, the relationship between the quality of institutions and financial flows has been studied less. Because low-income countries depend heavily on external financing flows and...
- Sailing With No Wind: The Impact of Deflation and Lowflation on Fiscal Aggregates
Entrenched low inflation ("lowflation") or negative inflation (deflation) has become a source of concern in several advanced economies. This is particularly true for fiscal policymakers. With lowflation (say positive inflation below 2 percent) or deflation, downward rigidities in both tax brackets...
- External Conditions and Debt Sustainability in Latin America
In a context of highly favorable external conditions, especially for commodity exporters, Latin America´s fiscal and external fundamentals improved markedly over the last decade. But, how dependent are these gains on a continuation of such conditions? To address this question, we develop a...
- The Quest for Stability in Housing Markets
Recent developments in global house prices have led to seemingly contradictory concerns about both overheating and slow recovery, reflecting house price booms in some countries and declining prices in others. This note discusses developments in global housing markets since the Great Recession-...
- Tax Capacity and Growth: Is There a Tipping Point?
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- Q&A: Seven Questions on the Implications of Global Supply Chains for Real Effective Exchange Rates
The real effective exchange rate (REER)-the most commonly used measure of competitiveness- requires a conceptual update to reflect the rise of global supply chains. This article summarizes recent research that develops a value-added REER, measuring competitiveness for value-added exports....
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